Janice Breen thinks this is interesting:

Adding a risk plan to
a schedule that does not already include risk mitigation tasks requires that the
schedule be updated and the project plan reinspected; however, this is not a bad thing.
Updating the schedule guarantees that the schedule does not contain any "white lies,"
and inspecting it effectively communicates the team's true estimate of the work to
everyone who will be impacted by it. If the risk plan is thorough, the stakeholders will
not be blindsided by the potential problems, because they will see that the team
anticipated these possibilities and has a plan to deal with them. This will remove a lot
of the pressure usually assoc...

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